an abuser starts out slowly
He began to take her away from her hobbies.
No big deal, her friends thought.
Then he took her away from her family.
They thought it was just young love.
After the marriage no one could get in touch with her.
He had sequestered her far away.
She no longer seemed to have a phone.
Her social media accounts were closed.
You don’t
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Categories:
starts, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Stir Of The Starts
In the quiet nook of a loving home,
Is my small world-
fenced by iron bars,
and a limited sky.
Protected from storms
and predator’s eye.
Fresh clean water,
steady sunflower seed supply.
Almost a picture-perfect life.
Yet, I often sigh.
I yearn for lush trees,
and open endless skies.
Where the sun shines bright
And the moon climbs high.
I long to join the chorus of dawn,
spread my
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Categories:
starts, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
One Starts, One Finishes
One day Bluebird may it be
The someday when it's you and me
Where all the dreams I had to store
And all the times I wanted more
When all the nights I sat alone
In silence staring at my phone
Are finally gone, the waiting done
Come to me, then we'll be one
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Categories:
starts, dream, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
As Sun Starts To Shine
G-lowing
L-ight,
O-nce
R-eleased,
I-mmediately
A-rrives,
B-rightly
A-llowing
L-iveliness
A-round
N-ature
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Monocrostic (Birthday of Gloria Balan)
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Categories:
starts, birthday,
Form: Other
Starts with a title
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Born on this rock with a diaper and mittens,
hard to the touch but so soft in its feel
Crawling along like a dragon with kittens,
purring out fire, if that could be real
Laid in the sun under cloud cover sharing,
offering thoughts in a dark shade of gray
Promising rain, during drought, oh so daring,
maybe at night but not
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Categories:
starts, life,
Form: Rhyme
Still Starts When It's Cold
she walks into the room
the same way she has for 40 years—
half-asleep mumbling about the price of eggs
but crap, she still makes my heart stop.
you’re the last busted payphone
that somehow still dials home.
you’re the only damn thing
that still makes sense
in a world full of unpaid bills and
broken air conditioners.
your
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Categories:
starts, love, true love, valentines
Form: Free verse
And now it starts - in Trumps own words
And now it starts,
And yes, I'm back at last,
Four years of trials and tribulations,
Capped off by this raucous jubilation.
I fought and won,
Proved them all wrong,
The denigrators,
The fake media perpetrators.
Now watch them squirm
As I storm into my term,
So much to do,
A solemn promise made to you.
I ask why was I spared,
When into death's eyes I clearly
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Categories:
starts, america, funny, humorous, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Dynamism Starts At Dawn
A grasshopper sitting on feral flower at my garden.
Me watching peacefully lying supine on my lawn
A chameleon attacks and swallows all on a sudden
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Categories:
starts, animal, bird, insect,
Form: Quintain (English)
Making New Starts
There’s nothing better than a warm winter fire
Burning in the hearth at home,
With a cup of coffee and a book to read
Stirring one’s mind to roam.
To a realm of virtual reality
Where ideas take to flight,
Between a few pages lost in the ages
While reading by firelight.
It may be a new
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Categories:
starts, books,
Form: Rhyme
Starts and stops
Whatever
Seems to happen
Happens emptily..
Empty expressions of
Starts and stops..
The starts and stops
Tell the stories
Of longing and
Discovery arising
Spontaneously...
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Categories:
starts, celebration, irony, words,
Form: Light Verse
REALISTIC
When you start getting it
All you've secretly strive for
Some with the help of few
Others all by yourself and God
When it starts manifesting
People Start tracking your medicine.
People wanna know your muse
Forgetting the story brings the glory
People want to be like and do you
But don't wanna walk in your shoes
Forgetting it goes from
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Categories:
starts, africa, career, cheer up,
Form: Narrative
NEMESIS
Your past always comes after you
When the future starts coming to you
Some call it conscious
Others calls it demons
Most calls it karma
What go around comes around.
Close to the finish line of all goals
Nemesis always prevail
It's vengeance of thy Law
Which is the Lord
Thy Lord is love
Giving back in return doubled all your dealings.
Nemesis
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Categories:
starts, africa, community, deep, education,
Form: Pastoral
Eternal Life Starts Down Here
When Christ comes He'll bring real life
gone for good, the sting of death.
His power and peace cleanses the strife,
Life eternal with His Holy Breath,
pluck the day while it is ripe; get engrossed.
All unmerited on our part,
by Christ the victory is won.
His death and resurrection starts
a journey with the Holy One.
Seize the day,
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Categories:
starts, 11th grade, day, engagement,
Form: Carpe Diem
Climate Change Starts at Home
Climate change starts at home
Lower the temperature under your dome
Never raise your voice, let alone scream
Discard the hot sauce, serve up ice cream
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Categories:
starts, home, symbolism, weather,
Form: Couplet
Mother Sun
I sleep
She sleeps
Before I wake up
She rises
And shines bright and brighter
I never wish to harm you she says,
But to give you abundant warmth
And light up your day
Moon never slumber nor sleeps
never tired of feeding,
Feeding on the light,
She reflects from the sun
And light up the night
How kind is
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Categories:
starts, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
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